Brood-coop.



C. S. RIGGIN.

BROOD COOP.

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Patented Sept. 26, 1916.

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BROOD COOP.

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CHARLIE S. RIGGIN, F KANKAKEE, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNCR T0 THE JAMES I-I. VIATSCN COMPANY, INC., OE BRADLEY, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION GF ILLINOIS.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

lPatented Sept. 26, 1916.

Application filed April 26, 1916. Serial No. 93,574.

To all 107mm t may concern Be it known that I, CHARLIE S. RIGGIN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Kankakee, in the county of Kankakee and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Brood-(loops, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to sheet metal brooder coops and has especial reference to broeder coops for poultry.

The object of my invention is generally to improve structures of this character and more specifically to provide a sturdy, rugged, inexpensive to manufacture and eflicient door for closure construction.

Other and further objects of my invention will become apparent, to persons skilled in the art, from a consideration of the following description when taken in conjunction with the drawings, wherein Figure 1 is an isometric perspective of the erected coop. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a side sectional elevation. Fig. 4 is a sectional elevation taken on line 4 1 of Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a horizontal section. Fig. 6 is a section takenon line 6-6 of Fig. 8. Fig. 7 is an enlarged perspective view of the corner joint by which the vertical Walls are held together.' Fig. 8 is a section taken on line 8 8 of Fig. 2. Fig. 9 is a view similar to that shown in Fig. 7, showing parts broken away, in section, to illustrate the manner of attaching the bottom wall to the vertical walls of the structure.

In all the views the same reference characters are employed to indicate similar parts.

The side walls 10 and 11 of the structure are, substantially, of the same sizev and configuration and each has a bottom edge 12 acutely upturned, into planes substantially parallel with the body part to strengthen the edge and to provide a means for holding the bottom wall 13 in place. Each vertical edge of the side walls is provided with outturned rolls lil, which, in conjunction with a similar roll, made in the vertical edges of the rear and front walls, respectively, form the slip joints for the quadrilateral structure and Serve to very materially strengthen the vertical edges of the walls. The side walls 10 and 11 are tapered from the front edge to the rear edge, so that the top will shed water, the tapered edge of each side wall being out-turned to provide a flange at -substantial right angles to the vertical portion, as at 15. This out-turned flange provides a sliding member for the top 16. Close under the outturned flange l5 ofthe side walls are a series of Ventilating perforations 17. The top wall is provided on its cverhanging side with acutely inturned flanges or edges 18, to inclose the out-turned flanges 15 of the side members, and to provide sliding guides therewith when the top is .placed over these members and slid into position. rlhe rear edge of the top member 16 is bent upon itself, as at 19, to provide a substantially smooth salient edge 20, and to strengthen this overhanging part of the structure,and is again bent, toward the edge 20, as at 21, to provide a flange 21 to engage an inturned flange 22 of the rear wall 23, when the top is in place. The flange 22 serves to strengthen the upper surface of the rear wall and to firmly hold the top and prevent it sliding farther upon the upper surfaces of the underlying walls. The lfront surface of the top 16 is provided with astrengthening roll 24C which is downturned, the inner edge Of which engages an out-turned flange 25 of the front wall 26. The lower edges of the rear wall 23, and of the front wall 26, are upturned, as at 2T and 28, respectively, just as the side walls are upturned, to engage the four downturned flanges 29 of the bottom 13. The bottom 13 is rectangular in form and is designed to fit snugly in the four vertical walls being provided with four downturned flanges 29 for engagement with the upturned flanges from the lower edges of said surrounding wallsB rThis raises the bottom 13 above the lower surface of the structure and provides a dry, warm floor, which serves, in conjunction with the top, to hold the four verticalivalls in rigid relative positions. rlhe top 13 is provided, in diagonal corners, with rings 30 that are hinged thereto, as at 31. To remove the bottom it is only necessary to lift the rings 30 and insert the fingers and raise the bottom from its position between the surrounding walls.

The back wall 23 is provided with vertically extending end rolls 32, somewhat larger than the rolls 14, and adapted to en- 'compass the smaller rolls when the parts are assembled. lVhen the top and bottom are removed from their association with the vertical side walls, the latter may be collapsed by bringing vthe diagonally opposite corners in substantially the same transverse plane. This will cause the back wall 23 to lie somewhat in a parallel relation with the side wall 11, and the side wall 10 will be in a substantially parallel plane with the front wall 26. `When it is desirable to quickly conipactthe coop to place it in storage, after it has been in use, this is probably a quicker and better way t0 collapse it, to make it occupy smaller dimensions, than when the particular members are entirely separated. The rolls 14 and 32 are sufficiently large to permit considerable relative rotation, the one within the other, for the purpose specied. The vertical edges 14 and 32 of the respective rolls are turned at somewhat an acute angle, in substantially radial planes, and these angular parts are so disposed, with reference to. each other when the side walls are in relative rectangular positions, as to permit the rotation of the member 14 within the member 32 to permit collapsing the side walls for the purpose specified. The back or rear wall 23 is provided with a series of Ventilating openings 34 near the upper edge thereof which lie immediately under the projection V19 of the top 16 and like the openings 17 in the side walls of the structure, the overhanging wall or roof 16 prevents snow or water from being driven into the interior of the coop, owing to the close approximation of these Ventilating perforations to the roof. The front wall 26 is provided with an entrance or door aperture 35, adapted to be covered by the sliding foraminous door 36, or the imperforate door 37. One boundary wall of the aperture 35'is out-turned, into a flange, as at 3S, to provide a stop for the imperforate door 37 The door 37 is made of sheet metal and has each of its edges inturned into a flange,

as at 39, to give strength to the door, the f front flange 39 being in coperative relation with the out-turnedy flange 38 of the wall 26 as a stop member, keeps the door 37 from sliding outwardly beyond the guidesV in whichit is inclosed..

Secured to the front wall 26 of the structure is a forwardly projecting channel guide turned portion 44, spaced apart from the wall 26, a distance substantially equal to or a little more than the combined thickness of the doors 36 and 37. The ledge portion 43 is downturned, at the` ends, as at 45, to provide stops to retain the doors within the channel so that they may not be moved too far in either direction. The channel 40 terminates in a forwardly projecting flange 46 carrying a suitable numberof perforations 47. Projecting forwardly of the door 36 is a similar flange 48 provided witha perforation 49 for register with the perforation 50 that a lock or other fastening device, may be passed through the said perforations to hold the door-in closed position, as shownv in Fig. 6. When the door 36 is yopen part of the way, so that the perforation 49 is in register with any of the perforations 47 in the fiange 46, a nail or pin may be passed. through the perforations 49 of the door and f in the flange 46, when the door is closed,so r

the meshes 51 in the wire cloth of the door 36.A r

Another channel 52, substantially as wide as the channel 40 above the doors, is provided at the lower extremity of the opening 35 and extends substantially across the front wall 26 of the coop. It is secured at each of its ends to the `front wall, as by rivets 53 or the like, or by any other suitable means.V

The ends 'of the channel 52 vare left open, so that any dirt that may accumulate therein will pass out through :the openings inthe ends, as the doors 36 and 37 are slidingly moved in the support.

Having described my invention, what I claim is f 1. In a coop the combination with one vertical wall thereof having an aperture therein to constitute a door-way, said aperture having an out-turned vertical edge; of an outwardly projecting door-guiding channel above the doorway and asimilar channel below the door way extending practically across the wall, the lower channel open at its end; a foraminous door, and an imperforate door, slidably movable in said channels to close and open the-door way, with either, said imperforate Ydoor having four inturned edges, one of which engages the out-turned edge of the door-way as a stop when the imperforate door is open.`

2. In a coop the combination with one ver-l tical wall thereof having an aperture therein;

to constitute a doorway, said aperture'having an out turned vertical edge; of out.

wardly projecting door guiding channels In testimony whereof I hereunto set my above and below the doorway; a foraminous hand in the presence of two subscribing 10 door, and an imperforate door slidably movwitnesses.

able in said channels to close and open the doorway with either, one of said doors hav- CHARLIE S RIGGIN ing a Vertical intuined edge which engages In the presence of the out-turned edge of the doorway as a stop I-I; I-I. WHITTEMORE, when said door is open. AURORA RUEL.

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